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Free mp3 Album: Hector's Favorite Patriotic Songs for Kids

I found a free album of American Patriotic songs!  Right now, we can download 5 free songs (mp3 files).  Choose a song that interests you, or download them all. They are sung by children.  I'd say Elementary age down to Preschool age would enjoy them.  

• The Yellow Rose of Texas
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• America the Beautiful
• Red River Valley
• Old Chisholm Trail

How to Get this Freebie:  Download Hector's Patriotic Songs for Kids here

These offers often change, so download the songs as soon as you can.

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Explore Free Interactive Exhibits at the National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History has many interactive exhibits that would interest all educators, even those who are not from the United States.  The exhibits include Making a Sod House, Thomas Edison's light bulb invention, architecture, and molecules. 

The exhibits include games, activities, and virtual field trips through the museum.

How to Get This Freebie:  View the interactive exhibits at the National Museum of American History

For: K-6th or so

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Not American?  I would love to know if there is a website such as this one for your country.  If you have a link, please share it with us!

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Free United States Government Documents and Lessons for Kids

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government was created especially for kids.  Divided by age group, the site offers just about all the documents and information you would want for teaching United States history. 

Here is an example of what the site offers to 9-12th graders:

And here is an example of what is offered to K-2 students:

(There are also chalkboards for 3-5th grades and 6-8th grades)

Here is the description of the site from the creators:

"Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is brought to the World Wide Web as a service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works."

How to Get this Freebie:  Visit Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids

p.s. A good starting point is the Parents & Teachers page.

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Thank you, Michelle, for sharing this high quality, 100% free educational find with us!

Free Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements with Videos

Since our Friendly Chemistry giveaway has so many entries already, I'm assuming that many of us would like some help teaching chemistry!  Here is a free find to help:

If your students had an Einstein-look-alike with a British accent teaching chemistry, do you think they'd listen more attentively?

If so, you're in luck.  He, along with other scientists from the University of Nottingham, have created the Periodic Table of Videos.  

Lisa, a Freely Educate reader, suggested this site to you.  She says, "There is a fun and instructional video for each element and many will have a cool experiment to show the properties of the element discussed."

How to Get This Freebie:  Visit the Periodic Table of Videos

For:  All Ages Studying the Elements

p.s. Here's a little tidbit -- Sg is "Seaborgium," named after Glenn Seaborg, a relative of my husband, who found the element.  He also discovered Plutonium (Pu).

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Free for 3 days!: 3 Memorial Day Patriotic eBooks & 1 Audio

In the United States, we celebrate Memorial Day on Monday.  Here are 4 freebies -- 3 ebooks and one audio file -- available this weekend only (combined value $21). You'll need the coupon code at the bottom of this post to get them for free.

Copywork Notebook Pages (value $3.95)

Young Patriot's Cursive Copywork (100 pages, value $9.99)

Memorial Day - A Day of Remembering (value $3.95)

Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech (audiofile, value $3.00)

 

How to Get these Freebies: 

First, place any or all of the above ebooks into your shopping cart.  click on the screenshots or their title names, above. 

Then, use coupon code extendeddate upon checkout.  You do not have to enter any payment information.  Leave that section blank and hit "continue" to download the files. 

Here is a snapshot of  my shopping cart, after the discount code was added.  

Expiration Date:  May 31st, 2011

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Giveaway! Friendly Chemistry Teacher & Student Edition ($100 Value)! CLOSED

This giveaway is now closed.  Thank you to those who entered!  Here is an exclusive discount code for those of us who didn't win: Order directly from Friendly Chemistry and use Coupon Code 2KY9DJ4D for 10% off the price.  Expires June 30, 2011 

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Friendly Chemistry has recently edited & updated their curriculum.  To celebrate, they want to send a full curriculum set to one of you!

After looking through a Friendly Chemistry textbook, you'll soon realize that, hmm, chemistry is a little more interesting than you first thought.  Give it a longer look and you'll find yourself surprisingly absorbed in elements and molecules.  Then...gather some students,  teach a Friendly Chemistry lesson and you'll see that chemistry is not only fun, but the kids are asking to have another chemistry class!  

The author, Joey Hajda, describes Friendly Chemistry  like this:

"Friendly Chemistry was written using simple language and a host of analogies to make learning (and teaching!) chemistry easy.  We believe that the chemistry concepts presented in Friendly Chemistry are NOT watered-down.  The concepts are just explained in ways that are readily understood by most learners.  Coupled with these explanations is a host of teaching aids, labs and games which makes the learning concrete and multi-sensory.  Students find the course fun and painless.  Parents often comment, 'I wish I had had this when I was taking chemistry.   Now it all makes so much sense!'"

Visit the Friendly Chemistry site for answers to questions about teaching the program in your homeschool or co-op or for answers to using the program in private or public schools.

 Guess what? The publishers want to offer one of you a free set of Friendly Chemistry curriculum, which includes:

• Student text
• Teacher text
• Manipulative text (a 74 page booklet to be disassembled by the end user)

Current retail cost is $49.99 for the student edition and $24.99 for each volume of the Teacher's edition (Two volume set).  The manipulative set retails for $9.99.  Total retail value:  $109.96

An Exclusive DISCOUNT Code:  Friendly Chemistry is offering FreelyEducate.com readers an exclusive discount!  Order directly from Friendly Chemistry and use Coupon Code 2KY9DJ4D for 10% off the price.  Expires June 30, 2011

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How to Enter - For your first entry, just leave a comment below.  Let us know what frustrates you about teaching science, or simply say you want to win this giveaway.   

Additional Entries: You'll receive an additional entry for any or each of these.  Remember to comment separately per entry.

1. First, did you just simply comment?  That's the mandatory entry.  Do that first.  Then, choose any or all of these: 
2. "Like" Friendly Chemistry on Facebook. Come back here to leave a comment, letting us know you did that.  
3. Blog about this giveaway on your blog or website   then come back here and leave a link to the blog post so we can visit you.
4. Tweet about this giveaway (copy your tweet to @freelyeducate).

That's 4 ways enter!  

Entries are open to all countries!  Random.org will select the winner.  The winning entry will be verified.  Entry deadline:  Monday, May 30, 2011 at noon CST. 

UPDATED MAY 30, 2011:  This giveaway is now closed.  Congratulations to Kelli, who was the 318th commenter that Random.org selected as the winner. Kelli's winning comment was:

318 Kelli Blackmon said...

I would love to win this giveaway. Chemistry is always a tough subject because I have a hard time thinking of real life lessons.

Reply May 27, 2011 at 11:45 AM

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Free Winnie the Pooh Copywork eBooks!

I found some cute copywork ebooks for you!   These pages all have a Winnie the Pooh theme and are all in print (ie. not cursive). I found three copywork ebooks, all about 10-12 pages each.  See below this sample page for the links to each book.

How to Get this Freebie: Choose any or all of the following free ebooks to download ~

• Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party
• Winnie the Pooh and Some Bees
• Piglet Meets a Heffalump

You will need to become a CurrClick member (free, easy) to download them, but you will not need to provide any payment information. 

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